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Canyon's birthday was not planned out too well.  We had thought we were going to do his party Saturday, but broke down after basketball on Thursday (his actual birthday) and let him open presents.  We also stopped by and got McDonalds for dinner and got hot fudge sundae's for his cake.

After eating hamburgers, he hit the gifts.

Mom got him a Razorback neon light for his room.

Aunt Kristy and Caleb and Emily got him The Croods.

Nana and Papa got him a McDonalds gift card. (could have used that tonight!)

He got a check from Grandpa.

Brittany got him a Razorback jersey shirt

Sahara got him a Razorback fuzzy hat and sunglasses.

The next day he received some more gifts from Grandma, Grandpa Tom and Aunt Paula.

More Razorback stuff!

Bath pouf, socks,

gloves, long sleeve shirt,

and a candy bar we almost missed in the bottom of the bag!!

And from Uncle Brian, Aunt Mel, Jason, Parker, Tobey, and Zoey...MONEY!

At school on Friday, we heard that Canyon had a couple special guests.  Mr. T., the middle school principal and Mr. Bradley, the high school principal, came over to see Canyon and they had coffee and donuts together.  Canyon has been having coffee with Mr. T since 4th grade :)

HaPpY 15th CaNyOn!!!

Trying to make a small space work

Poor Canyon. His room is really small. We had to do some thinking and I'm glad we held on to our old kitchen table. I really need to get a board to help support his mattress but for now we are using what we have. 

His bed is high now. Comes to my chest and he has to use a chair to climb up onto it. But it gives him storage space underneath. 

He seems to like this set up. I wish I could afford to have someone custom make a nice loft bed for him. But this will have to work mainly because I don't know what I really want. 

It finally came!

Pottsville doesn't give out yearbooks until the next school year so that EVERYTHING can be included in them. Good to get all the memories, but then you don't get to have everyone sign. And the kids who have gone out of state or away to college have to have theirs shipped. 

 

The reason I was so worried about not receiving it yet was because it was SO expensive. Yes, she didn't have to have her name on it or get the dedication page, (the extra pictures are the smallest thumbnails I've ever seen!!) but I did it anyway. $$$

Baby pictures by the senior picture was optional but they called home and sent reminders encouraging all to do it. 

 

And because they could include everything prom...

...and graduation is in the book too :)

Basketball started!

He is on the red team again this year. I won't be washing this shirt in the washer until I see how the other kids shirts do. His shirt from last year lost the appliqué after one wash and so did half the other kids. 

I only got one picture this game. You can't see the ball because its a great shot and about to make a basket!

A girls basketball team are the ones helping out this year. Canyon loves the girls and had to give all 12 of them a hug before we left ( most who are on the team from his school ), but I have to admit there was more excitement when the boys team helped in years past. 

Sahara's Blog

Sahara has decided to start a blog of her own.  I JUST FOUND OUT!  If you care to see it, basically it's what I have blogged too, but it's her point of view.  

http://saharaskye07.blogspot.com/

I have no idea how often she will post.  You probably wont miss too much if you check on it monthly.

Fun at horse therapy

He loves riding :)

Picture Day

I took the kids to a little market that turned out to really be a joke. No one was there but the people working it. But, we took birthday pictures anyway. 

At least we found some cute and friendly animals. 

Update to Sahara's birthday post!!

Mt. Nebo

Sahara has been asking to go hiking for weeks. Since we went to the Brass in the Clouds last night and it was chilly on the mountain, I figured it would be a perfect day today. 

Rim Trail starts behind the visitor's center. Great area for picnics. Lake Dardanelle behind the kids. 

This is where the band played the night before. Sunset Point. 

Sahara and Brittany with their toga pose. 

We decided to take the Rim Trail, but it breaks off and you have to take Summit Trail half way and then get back on Rim. Somehow we got mixed up and took Summit all the way back around and ended up at cabins. That was fine with me because the trail was supposed to be easy/moderate and it was kicking my butt. Not to mention I set out shoes for Canyon to put on but he chose to put on crocs instead and we didn't realize that until we got there. Crocs are not good hiking footwear for sure. 

This was the easy part. 

Found a frog!

It rained all day Friday but since we were in a drought before then, no water under the bridge. 

Ohhhh. More critters. This walking stick was on the door to the visitors center. 

Panoramic Brittany took. 

Getting ready for hang gliders and parachute jumpers at Sunrise Point. 

First attempt was a fail.

There he goes!

Brass in the Clouds

Nothing going on today so we headed up Nebo Mountain to watch some of the brass band from Tech in the 9th annual Brass in the Clouds. (actually not a cloud in the sky)

They set up on the cliff that faces west so it's a pretty sunset view.

Tech photographer in the sunset.

This little girl was cute.  Her grandma wouldn't let her go an arms length away because of the cliff so she did the big pout.

As soon as the sun disappeared, it got really chilly.  At least there were only 2 pieces left to play and it would be over.  A lot of people didn't think of the weather being 30 degrees cooler up there and were wearing tank tops and shorts.  Glad we took jackets in case.

TOGA TOGA TOGA

They're off to their first college party!!  It was held at a country club and they had to pre buy tickets to get in, so it sounded a little safer then a typical party. 

Got home a little before 2 am. Said it was fun but most the people were half naked. 

They didn't want to go dressed up, but luckily I was able to convince them to do it anyway!